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Arkaprava Mukherjee

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arXiv2026

Van Hove singularity-driven giant Nernst signal in twisted double bilayer graphene

Twisted graphene layers host van Hove singularities (vHSs), peaks in the electronic density of states, thought to drive exotic phases in moir\'e materials, but their effect on thermal transport has remained unclear. Here we show that vHSs in twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG) generate an unusually large Nernst signal-the transverse voltage produced by a longitudinal temperature gradient in a magnetic field. The pronounced Nernst peaks at the vHSs of the conduction and valence bands of tDBLG are tunable by an electric field with a maximum value of $\sim 40$ $\mu V K^{-1} T^{-1}$ at $\sim 1$ $K$, which is comparable to the best-known Nernst materials. Our theoretical calculations show that the large enhancement of the Nernst signal arises from the Lifshitz transitions around the vHSs. These findings establish the Nernst effect as a sensitive probe of Fermi-surface topology in moir\'e materials, and identify a universal thermoelectric signature of van Hove singularities.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2026

Tunable Chaos in the Finite Mean SYK Model

The complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, featuring fermions with all-to-all interactions, serves as a dual paradigm for understanding non-Fermi liquid behavior and the holographic nature of charged black holes. Two defining characteristics of the standard SYK model are its maximal chaos (Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{\mathrm{L}}=2\pi T$ at temperature $T$), and its finite zero-temperature residual entropy. While previous studies have largely focused on couplings drawn from a zero-mean Gaussian distribution, we investigate a generalized model with a finite mean-to-standard-deviation ratio, $g\equiv J_{0}/\delta J$ of the coupling distribution in order to get deeper insight into the evolution of chaos. We find that increasing $g$ yields the following effects: (i) The system remains a fast scrambler with $\lambda_{\mathrm{L}}=A~T$, but with a suppressed coefficient $A<2\pi$. (ii) In the limit $g\to \infty$, out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) no longer exhibit exponential growth with $\lambda_{\mathrm{L}}\simeq 0$. (iii) The spectral correlations indicative of late-time chaos maintain Wigner-Dyson level spacing statistics for all values of $g$. (iv) The system preserves a finite residual entropy, albeit with reduced magnitude, for all $g$ values. We conclude that in this generalized SYK model, there is a chaotic to non-chaotic crossover. Moreover different measures of chaos decouple, demonstrating that the presence of finite residual entropy does not strictly imply maximal chaos.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2024

Multipartite information in sparse SYK models

In quantum field theories that admit gravity dual, specific inequalities involving entanglement entropy between arbitrary disjoint spatial regions hold. An example is the negativity of tripartite information. Inspired by this, we investigate the analogous entropy inequalities in Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) and sparse SYK models, which involve the entanglement among different flavors of Majorana fermions rather than spatial entanglement. Sparse SYK models are models where some of the SYK couplings are set to zero. Since these models have been argued to admit gravity duals up to a certain sparseness, it is interesting to see whether the multipartite entanglement structure changes in a sparseness-dependent manner. In the parameter space explored by our numerical analysis, which we performed upto five parties, we find that all entropy inequalities are satisfied for any temperature and degree of sparseness for an arbitrary choice of flavor subregions. In addition, if we plot the multipartite entanglement entropy in terms of purity, the only significant effect of sparseness is to change the range of purity. Thus, we conclude that multipartite information is almost unaffected by sparseness. As a counterexample, we also show that in a vector model of $N$-flavored Majorana fermions which contains no random variables, choices of subregions exist for which the entropy inequalities are violated.

hep-th↗

arXiv2023

Sparse random matrices and Gaussian ensembles with varying randomness

We study a system of $N$ qubits with a random Hamiltonian obtained by drawing coupling constants from Gaussian distributions in various ways. This results in a rich class of systems which include the GUE and the fixed $q$ SYK theories. Our motivation is to understand the system at large $N$. In practice most of our calculations are carried out using exact diagonalisation techniques (up to $N=24$). Starting with the GUE, we study the resulting behaviour as the randomness is decreased. While in general the system goes from being chaotic to being more ordered as the randomness is decreased, the changes in various properties, including the density of states, the spectral form factor, the level statistics and out-of-time-ordered correlators, reveal interesting patterns. Subject to the limitations of our analysis which is mainly numerical, we find some evidence that the behaviour changes in an abrupt manner when the number of non-zero independent terms in the Hamiltonian is exponentially large in $N$. We also study the opposite limit of much reduced randomness obtained in a local version of the SYK model where the number of couplings scales linearly in $N$, and characterise its behaviour. Our investigation suggests that a more complete theoretical analysis of this class of systems will prove quite worthwhile.

hep-th↗

arXiv2020

Spectral Form Factor for Time-dependent Matrix model

The quantum chaos is related to a Gaussian random matrix model, which shows a dip-ramp-plateau behavior in the spectral form factor for the large size $N$. The spectral form factor of time dependent Gaussian random matrix model shows also dip-ramp-plateau behavior with a rounding behavior instead of a kink near Heisenberg time. This model is converted to two matrix model, made of $M_1$ and $M_2$. The numerical evaluation for finite $N$ and analytic expression in the large $N$ are compared for the spectral form factor.

hep-th↗

arXiv2019

Quantum randomness in the Sky

In this article, we study quantum randomness of stochastic cosmological particle production scenario using quantum corrected higher order Fokker Planck equation. Using the one to one correspondence between particle production in presence of scatterers and electron transport in conduction wire with impurities we compute the quantum corrections of Fokker Planck Equation at different orders. Finally, we estimate Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistical moments to verify our result derived to explain stochastic particle production probability distribution profile.

physics.gen-ph↗

arXiv2019

Quantum Out-of-Equilibrium Cosmology

In this work, our prime focus is to study the one to one correspondence between the conduction phenomena in electrical wires with impurity and the scattering events responsible for particle production during stochastic inflation and reheating implemented under a closed quantum mechanical system in early universe cosmology. In this connection, we also present a derivation of fourth order corrected version of the Fokker Planck equation and its analytical solution for studying the dynamical features of the particle creation events in the stochastic inflation and reheating stage of the universe. It is explicitly shown from our computation that quantum corrected Fokker Planck equation describe the particle creation phenomena better for Dirac delta type of scatterer. In this connection, we additionally discuss It$\hat{o}$, Stratonovich prescription and the explicit role of finite temperature effective potential for solving the probability distribution profile. Furthermore, we extend our discussion to describe the quantum description of randomness involved in the dynamics. We also present a computation to derive the expression for the measure of the stochastic non-linearity arising in the stochastic inflation and reheating epoch of the universe, often described by Lyapunov Exponent. Apart from that, we quantify the quantum chaos arising in a closed system by a more strong measure, commonly known as Spectral Form Factor using the principles of Random Matrix Theory (RMT). Additionally, we discuss the role of out of time order correlation (OTOC) function to describe quantum chaos in the present non-equilibrium field theoretic setup. Finally, for completeness, we also provide a bound on the measure of quantum chaos arising due to the presence of stochastic non-linear dynamical interactions into the closed quantum system of the early universe in a completely model-independent way.

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arXiv2018

A universal bound on Quantum Chaos from Random Matrix Theory

In this article, using the principles of Random Matrix Theory (RMT), we give a measure of quantum chaos by quantifying Spectral From Factor (SFF) appearing from the computation of two-point Out of Time Order Correlation function (OTOC) expressed in terms of square of the commutator bracket of quantum operators which are separated in time. We also provide a strict model independent bound on the measure of quantum chaos, $-1/N(1-1/π)\leq {\bf SFF}\leq 0$ and $0\leq {\bf SFF}\leq 1/πN$, valid for thermal systems with a large and small number of degrees of freedom respectively. Based on the appropriate physical arguments we give a precise mathematical derivation to establish this alternative strict bound of quantum chaos.

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